Slowfoam // Transcorporeal Portal LP

過去にLillerneなどから発表しているドイツ・ベルリンの実験エレクトロニック作家Slowfoamが、2024年4月にスコットランド・グラスゴーのSomewhere Pressからリリースしたレコードです。

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Ask us for digital files. 12" black vinyl. Edition of 300. Includes A4 insert featuring essay by Lou Croff Blake.

Tracklist:

1. Enlightened Smudge on the Machine (feat. Diane Barbé) 05:03
2. Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK) 07:53
3. Evapotranspiration 04:16
4. Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm 04:37
5. Grief Rituals 01:24
6. Somniferous, Like a Piquant Crescent 06:09
7. Fragrantly Dusking 02:40
8. Soft Body Viridescence 05:09
9. Of Data & Delight 04:17
10. Savor it 02:31

Somewhere Press:

"Madelyn Byrd’s practice is built on the intersections of hydrofeminism and neuroaesthetics, an exploration into uncanny interactions between ecology and technology. Under their Slowfoam moniker, they have produced a string of intoxicating EPs, synergizing acoustic and synthetic sounds. In a mutated evolution from 2000’s glitch and micro-tonal experimentalism, Slowfoam’s queered ambience oozes with sensual tactility, an effervescent gurgling of digitally processed organic material.

On their debut LP, Transcorporeal Portal, aqueous field recordings are stretched, compressed and elongated into a symphony of celestial purls, smudging all sense of time. Digital ripples are traced by murmurs of the body; the steady pulse of a heartbeat and the intimate breath of whispered words.

Slowfoam embraces the glossy tonality of the hyper-digital, metamorphosing samples through deep manipulation. Sounds are sequenced in intricate arrangements like branching fractals of living organisms, with complex patterns forming at every scale. This process, layered and enigmatic, evokes the unfathomable processing of AI algorithms, offering prophetic glimpses inside the shimmering portal.

Through all the digital rendering, there’s a profound vitality to their sound, evident of the immensely rich source material. Collaborator Pablo Diserens, founder of the forms of minutiae imprint, contributes exquisite, esoteric field sounds, too strange to be fictional; bubbling sulphur pools, gushing, glacial streams and the intense, shrill calls of krías (birds of death), interlacing the record with mythical wonder. Elsewhere recordings are sourced from the delicate thrum of a hand-made lyre harp, the spiritual flute playing of Diane Barbé and the digital instrumentation of composer Ran Park.

From the rumbling inception of Enlightened Smudge on the Machine, Slowfoam’s sound world erupts into life in rapture, like sparkling light through opalescent glass. As quickly as they appear, these heightened reverberations decay, revealing the deep depths below the surface, radiant drones drifting and rolling eternally. The allure of these unadorned drones evokes altered states of consciousness, a full-body tingling of erotic synesthesia. There is a meticulous balance in the way sounds materialise and disintegrate, hypnotizing in their free-flowing sway..."

Artist : Slowfoam

Label : Somewhere Press

CAT No.: SP02LP